{"product_id":"paul-mpagi-sepuya-9781597114806","title":"Paul Mpagi Sepuya","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Mpagi Sepuya\u003c\/i\u003e presents the work of one of the most prominent, up-and-coming photographers working today.\u003c\/b\u003e Sepuya primarily makes studio photographs of friends, artists, collaborators, and himself, inviting viewers to consider the construction of subjectivity. He challenges and deconstructs traditional portraiture by way of collage, layering, fragmentation, mirror imagery, and the perspective of a black, queer gaze. In contrast to the slick artifice of contemporary portraiture, Sepuya suggests the human element of picture taking--fingerprints, smudges, dust on the surface of mirrors. He also allows glimpses into the studio setting--including tripods, backdrops, lenses, and the photographer himself--encouraging multivalent narrative reads of each image. For Sepuya, photography is a tactile and communal enterprise. Although the creation of artist books has been a long-standing part of his practice, \u003ci\u003ePaul Mpagi Sepuya\u003c\/i\u003e is the first publication of his work to be released widely, copublished with the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis on the occasion of a major solo exhibition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSepuya, Paul Mpagi:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003ePaul Mpagi Sepuya\u003c\/b\u003e is a Los Angeles-based artist. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among other institutions. Notable recent exhibitions include a solo survey exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, a solo exhibition at Amsterdam's Foam museum in 2018, the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and \u003ci\u003eBeing: New Photography 2018\u003c\/i\u003e at the Museum of Modern Art.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGaines, Malik:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMalik Gaines\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, performer, and associate professor and director of undergraduate studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). Since 2000, Gaines has performed and exhibited extensively with the group My Barbarian, whose collective has presented work at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Biennial, and Performa Biennial.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGallun, Lucy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eLucy Gallun\u003c\/b\u003e is associate curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. She has curated and cocurated many exhibitions at MoMA, including \u003ci\u003eBeing: New Photography 2018\u003c\/i\u003e, which included multiple works by Sepuya. Gallun is also coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePhotography at MoMA\u003c\/i\u003e, a three-volume history of photography at the museum.\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50528562020626,"sku":"9781597114806","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_99a0789e-1564-4c68-b35f-7a87d1936793.jpg?v=1731330884","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/paul-mpagi-sepuya-9781597114806","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}